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MACHINE FOR MAKING PAPER CARTRIDGE-SHELLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 635,072, dated. October 17, 1899. Application filed May l5, 1899. Serial No. 716,816. (N0 model.)

To LZZ whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that I, HOBERT J. HURD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Machine for Making Paper Cartridge-Shells, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for mak-` ing cartridge-shells, particularly those for use in shotguns and composed of paper cylinders having metallic caps; and the principal object of theinvention is the production of a machine which will automatically spread the ends of the paper tubes, form and insert the Wads, pinch or contract the Wadded ends of the tubes, spread the ends of the metallic caps, unite the caps and Wadded tubes, and, nally, restore the spread ends of the caps to cylindrical shape and discharge the iinished shells. Other objects incidental to the foregoing Will be apparent in connection with the following description.

To these ends theinvention consists in mechanism for forming and inserting the Wads while the tubes are held in one position, such as the horizontal, mechanism for applying caps to the tubes while held in another position, such as the vertical, and means for feeding the tubes from one to the other and for changing their positions While in transit from one to the other.

The invention further consists in features of construction and in combinations of parts, as Will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In carrying out this invention much of an old and Well-known form of dial capping mechanism is employed for applying the caps to the paper tubes, the changes therein being miner ones, mainly due to the combination therewith of my novel arrangement and construction of means for Wadding the tubes. 'In addition to providing the latter I have produced a novel secondary feed for automatically transferring the tubes from the Wadding mechanism to the said generally-old form of capping mechanism, and in connection with all these devices and mechanisms I have provided means for automatically stopping the machine upon the failure ot' any supply or other error in production.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar reference characters indicate the same parts throughout the several views, Figure 1 .the machine Which act directly upon the paper tubes and metallic caps to assemble them to form the complete shells, the Wadding mechanism being omitted. Fig. (5 represents a plan view of the parts of the machine shown in Fig. 5. Fig. (i2L represents a detail section on line 6a 6 of Fig. 6. Fig. 7 represents an elevation of the mechanism shown at the right of the line 7 7 ofl Fig. 4L on a larger scale. Fig. 8 represents a detail plan View of the mechanism for coiling the paper strips to form the Wads and for pushing the Wads into the paper cylinders. Fig. 9 represents a side elevation of the mechanism shown in Fig. 8. Fig.

l0 represents a front elevation of the same. Fig. ll represents a rear elevation 0f the same. Fig. 12 represents a section on line 12 12 of Fig. 9 enlarged to the full size of the machine. Fig. 13 represents a part elevation and part section on line 13 13 of Fig. 12. Fig. 14 represents a detail part plan and part horizontal section-of the mechanism for transferring the paper tube and its Wad after they have been assembled to the punch and die mechanism for applying the metal caps. Fig. 15 represents an elevation of the chute,

Which With the transferrer constitutes the Y secondary feed for taking the tube and wad from the s'pirally-fiuted rolls shown in Fig. 12 and turning it to be properly delivered end- Wise to the transferrer-jaws shown in Fig. 111-. Fig. 16 represents a detail plan vieW of the presser bar or plate for holding the paper tubes on the spirally-fluted rolls to cause the feed and proper intermittent stopping of said tubes opposite the spreader-punch and the Wad-inserters. Fig. 17 represents a detail secshaft 45, having a driving-pulley 46.

tion on line 17 17 of Fig. 11,somewhat enlarged. Fig. 18 represents a detail elevation of one of the holders for the coil of wad-paper. Fig. 19 represents a detail elevation of the dial mechanism. Fig. 2O represents a detailelevation of the hopper and feed-wheel. Fig. 21 represents a vertical section of the said hopper and wheel. Fig. 22 represents a detail section on line 22 22 of Fig. 8. Fig. 23 represents a detail sectional View on the line 23 23 of Fig. 9. Fig. 24 represents a detail elevation similar to the upper part of Fig. 10, but drawn on a larger scale. Figs. 25 to 32, inclusive, represent sectional views of the paper tube and the metal cap, beginning with their condition as supplied to this machine and representing the step-by-step results of the operation of the machine on the tube and cap separately and assembled, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts throughout the several views.

The main frame 41 of the machine is supported on suitable legs 42, and secured to the back of said frame are brackets 43, (see Figs. 3 and 4,) having bearings 44 for the main Said pulley is adapted to be connected to the shaft by a clutch (not shown) or to run freely when the machine is stopped intentionally or automatically by the mechanism hereinafter described.

The clutch employed in the machine forms no part of my invention and may be of any well-known or preferred type.

In practice the machine illustrated employs the wellknown Johnson clutch and brake mechanism for stopping the main shaft at an exact point when the pulley is unclutched from the shaft. The pin for controlling the clutch is indicated at 47 (see Fig. 2) and is adapted to be operated by contact with the inclined or wedge-shaped end 4S of the arm 49 of a lever which is pivoted at 50 to the frame. A spring 51 acts to draw the upper end 4S of the lever down upon the clutch-hub to lie in the path of the pin 47 to unclutch the pulley when permitted to do so by the mechanism presently described. The lower arm of the lever is connected by means of a link 52 (see Fig. 6) with one end of alever 53, pivoted at 54 to the front of the machine and having its other end provided with a handle 55 (see Fig. 2) and extending through a horizontal guide 56, formed in a bracket attached to the front of the machine.

Pivoted to the right-hand end of the frame (see Fig. 3) is a lever 57, having a handle 58 at its front end and a catch-shoulder 59 behind said handle, said catch-shoulder being adapted to engage behind the lever 53 to hold it in outward position and the arm 49 raised out of the path of movement of the clutch-pin 47 to permit the machine to operate.

Attached to the end of the frame is a magnet 60, having its armature 61 formed with a hook 62 at its lower end, adapted to engage the inner end of the lever 57 to hold it in position with its shoulder 59 across the space in the guide 56, and said lever 57 is provided with an upwardly-extending finger 63, which rides over the end of the armature-hook 62 and prevents it from getting out of position to catch the end of the lever. The lever 57 is shown in Fig. 3 in the position which it occupies when the machine is stopped, and a spring 64 acts to hold the lever in this position and against a stop 65.

When the handle 55 is pulled out to start the machine, the operative also presses down on the handle 58 to cause the shoulder 59 of the lever 57 to engage behind the lever 53 and to also cause the end of lever 57to be engaged and held by the hook 62 of the armature; but whenever an electric circuit is completed through the magnet either intentionally by the operative or due to the automatic action of certain parts of the machine, as will be hereinafter described, the armature is attracted by the magnet and releases the lever 57, permitting spring 64 to shift the catch 59 above the guide 56, and thus release the lever 53. The spring 51 then acts through the link 52 to throw the handle end' of lever 53 outward and at the same time throws the inclined end 48 of the arm 49 into the path of rotation of the clutch-pin 47, and thus stops the machine.

The parts and groups of mechanism will now be described so far as possible in the order in which they act on the tube and cap to prepare them and to unite them to form the shell. Such description will be clearer, however, by prefacing it with the brief explanation that the machine takes the paper tubes in the shape shown in Fig. 25'and first iiares one end of the tube, as shown in Fig. 26, and makes and inserts the wad to the position shown in Fig. 27 and then compresses or pinches the Wadded end of the tube, as shown in Fig. 30. During this last operation another part of the machine takes a cap in the shape shown in Fig. 2S and flares its edge, as shown in Fig. 29. Then the wadded tube and the cap in the forms illustrated, respectively, in Figs. 30 and 29 are assembled and the pinched end of the tube restored to normal position, as shown in Fig. 31,'and finally the flared edge of the cap is compressed and restored to cylindrical shape and the shell thus completed, as in Fig. 32.

The paper tubes are fed by an operative or attendant from -av suitable table (not shown) to the hopper 66, supported at one end of the bed 67, which is secured to the front wall of a bed 67 by means which will permit of the vertical adjustment of the bed 67 relatively to the bed 67a, as hereinafter described.

The front wall of the hopper is composed of a slowly-moving wing or vibrator 68, (indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 5,) the object of which is to keep the shells in the hopper agitated so as to insure their successive passage out through the opening under the lower edge of the vibrator, the said opening being only IOO IIO

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wide enough to permit the passage or feed of but one tube at a time. Said vibrator is secured to a shaft 69, mounted in bearings formed in the sides of the hopper or in standards at the sides thereof, and an arm 71, having a slot 72 at its lower end, is secured to said shaft. A block 7 3, carried by the transferer-slide 222, hereinafter described, is provided with an arm 74, which has a pin 75 entering the slot in arm 71. Hence as said slide reciprocates the vibrator is caused to oscillate to press against and recede from the tubes in the hopper.

Mounted in bearings in the bed 67 and eX- tending horizontally forward from under the hopper are two shafts 76, havingreverse spiral grooves (see Figs. 2and 6) and geared to rotate in opposite directions by the pinions 77, (see Figs. 3 and 5,) fast on their outer ends. A gear 78 meshes with one of the pinions and is mounted loosely on a stud-shaft projecting from the frame, said gear having its hub formed with ratchet-teeth 79.' An arm 80 is mounted loosely on the said stud-shaft and is provided with a pawl 81, which is kept in engagement with the ratchet-toothed hub of the gear by means of a spring 82. The outer end of the arm 80 is connected by a pitman 83 with a crank 84, fast on the main shaft 45. The rotations of the crank 84 cause the pawl to impart a step-by-step rotation to the gear 78, the pinions 77, and the spirally-grooved shafts, and thus said shafts take the tubes one by one from under the vibrator and advance the entire series held by the grooves (see dotted lines in Fig. 6) with an intermittent motion, which causes the stoppage of the tubes in a horizontal plane and position, to have their ends spread and then filled with wads, as more fully hereinafter described.

To preserve the proper position of the tubes on the conveyer-shafts and keep them down in the grooves thereof, vertical guide-plates for the ends of the tubes and a top plate or presser are provided. The vertical guideplates 85 and 86 are clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 6, the outer one 86 being adjustable, to suit the length of tubes used, by means of the slotted wings 87 and screws 88, passing through the slots thereofl into the bed 67. Screws 89, tapped through blocks 90 on the bed and bearing against the guide 86, are employed to obtain ne adjustment, after which the screws 88 hold said guide in place.

The top plate or presser (see Figs. 2, 5, and 16) is composed of a fixed plate 91 anda wing 92, hinged thereto. The fixed plate 91 is brazed or otherwise secured to, or it may be a part of, a bracket-piece 93, which is secured to a block 350 on the bed back of the innerguide 85, and said plate 91 extends rearward to about the line of the front edges of the side walls of the tube-hopper, so that the tubes therefrom, as they are engaged by the ends of the spiral grooves of the shafts 76, are advanced into the machine under said plate 91. The wingplate 92 is hinged to the plate 91, as at 94, and

extends nearly to the inner ends of the shafts 76, so as to hold the tubes down in the grooves of said shafts. A spring 95 is hinged to the plate 91 at 96 and is provided with a finger piece or knob 97, which bears on the hinged plate 92 and holds the latter on the tubes with a yielding pressure. The object of pivoting the spring is to enable it to be swung outward to clear the hinged plate to enable the latter to be turned upward and back to give access to the shafts 76 and the space between the guide 85 and 86.

While the tubes are held stationary by the grooved shafts during the periods of rest of the latter, as hereinbefore described, they are first acted upon by a horizontally-movable spreading-punch, and then are farther advanced and stopped by the shafts in position to receive their wads, and are then again advanced to the secondary feeding mechanism, which presents the wadded tubes to the dial mechanism forapplyingthecaps. Themovements of the tubes while being spread and wadded are in a horizontal direction while held in a horizontal plane, and the arrangement and operation of the devices for so acting on the tubes are in the same horizontal plane, and therefore the parts and tools are all in a convenient and accessible position either for inspection or removing or cleaning.

The spreading-punch comprises the head 98, (see Figs. 6 and 6%) carried at the outer end of a rod 99, projecting from a block 100, adjustably secured to a slide 101, fittedv to ways on the bed 67a. Mounted loosely on the rod 99 is a ring 102, having lugs 103 projecting through grooves 104 in the head 98, a spring being coiled about the rod 99 between the block 100 and the back of the ring 102. Then the slide 101 is projected, the head 98 moves rigidly therewith and spreads the end of the tube which has been stopped in front of it, while the lugs 103 abut against the end of the tube and remain stationary during the advance of the head; but on the withdrawal of the slide and head the lugs 103 are still held against the end of the tube by the pressure of spring 105, and thus act to strip the tube from the head to prevent it from being drawn out of position by the backward movement of the head.

The slide 101 is reciprocated at the proper intervals by the lever 106, pivoted at 107 to a bracket at the rear of the main frame and having a pin or roll at its lower end entering a cam-groove 108 in a disk 109, secured on the main shaft 45.

After each tube has been spread at its end to readily receive the wad it is advanced by the shafts 76 to position in front of one of the wadding mechanisms. There are two such mechanisms, duplicates of each other, and the wads are inserted in pairs-that is, the spiral shafts are given two movements to one complete operation of the duplicate Wadding mechanism, so as to locate two flared tubes in front of said mechanisms, which two tubes IOO IIO

will simultaneously receive the pair of wads which have been formed during the period of time required for the two tubes to reach said position from the spreading-punch.

Before referring to the wadding mechanism in detail the supports and boxes for the coils of paper from which the wads are made will be described, referring particularly to Figs. 1, 2,3, 4, and 18. Rising from the frame of the machine are two posts 110, connected at their upper ends by a bar 111, to which are secured two shallow cylindrical boxes 112 for holding the coils of paper, one of which is indicated at 113 in Fig. 13. Each box 112 has a front or door 114 hinged thereto at 115 and slotted, as at 116, to enable an attendant to see when a coil has nearly run out, and having a lug 117, adapted to be engaged by a suitable detent or latch 118 for holding the door closed. Two rolls 119 project forward from the back of the box on opposite sides of a slot in the cylindrical body of the boX, and the strip of paper emerges between said rolls to the wad-forming mechanism, which will now be described.

Fitted to suitable ways on the bed (57iL is a horizontal slide 120, (see Fig. 6,) operated by means of a lever 121, (see Fig. 4,) connected at 122 to said slide and pivoted to a bracket on the frame ofthe machine at 123. The lower end of the lever is provided with a pin or roll enteringa cam-groove 124, (see Fig. 3,) formed in the side of a gear 125, mounted on a short counter-shaft in bearings 126 and meshing with and driven by a gear 127 on the main shaft 45. The greater portion of the camgroove is concentric with the axis of rotation; but at one end of the inward curve the cam is formed with a slight outward curve, as at 128in Fig. 3, toimpart to thelevera movement that will give the slide 120 a short outward movement or hitch and then its full inward movement and then its return to its position caused by the 4concentric portion of the cam-groove. The purpose of this hitch is to actuate the paper-knives, as will be hereinafter described, and this mechanism forms an important feature of my invention. In fact, it maybe as well to call attention at this point to the fact that the slide 120 and its movements are important, as it is from this slide that most of the parts relating to the wad forming and inserting operation derive their different movements.

The gear 127 on the main shaft is of a size to drive the cam-gear 125 at one-half the speed of themain shaft, and hence the slide 120 makes one complete reciprocation and operates the two wad-inserters, which are reciprocated by said slide, as presently described, once for every two operations of the tube-spreader above described.

The slide 120 at Aits inner end is provided with a block 129, supporting a cross-head 130, (see Figs. 9 and 12,) which block and crosshead are'preferably in one piece, the crosshead having a roll 131 at each end which enters a slot 132 in one arm of a lever 133, piv oted at 134 to a foot-piece 135 of a casting 136. The casting 136 is shown in different views in Figs. 8, 9, 10, and 11. It bridges over the slide 120 and is bolted to the bed 67 l and is provided with the various bearings and ways for the pivoted and'sliding parts of the wadding mechanisms, hereinafter described.

Each of the levers 133 is connected at its outer end to a slide 137, iitted to ways formed horizontally in the face of the casting 136, said slide having a block 133 secured to its outer face and carrying a knife 139 for severing the paper strip. The block 138 is vertically adjustable on the slide 137 by means of a bolt 140, passing through a slot in the block into said slide, the latter having a vertical groove 141 to receive a rib on the back of the block to steady the block on the slide. Each knife 139 is adjustably secured to the top of its block by a bolt 142, passing through a slot 143, formed in the iiat shank of the knife. It will now be understood that the knives may be readily adjusted for accurate working in connection with the slots of the tubes through which the paper passes to be rolled into wads, as hereinafter described. p

Referring to Fig. 12, it will be seen that the slots 132 have straight portions which are parallel with each other when in the position shown in said figure and that the advance of the cross-head 130 from said position will not operate the knives; but the rear portions of the slots 132 are at such ari-angle to the straight portions that when the crosshead recedes from said position the rear ends of the levers 133 are spread apart and their frontends advance the knives to sever the two paper strips. As hereinbefore stated, the short outward movement of the slide and its cross-head 130 to effect this cutting operation of the knives is obtained by means of the outward curve or hitch cam 128, which operates the cross-head just the necessary distance required for the action of the rolls 131 in the angular portions of the slots of the levers 133.

As shown in Figs. 12 and 13, I provide guides 144 for the paper strips which are fed to the tubes of the wad-winders, each of said guides comprising a vertical slot formed in a block 145, having a slot 146, through which a bolt 147 passes into the slide 137, thus providing for the adjustment of the guide to secure alinement of its slot with the slot in the tube of the wad-Winder, which has yet to be described. The guide 144 is therefore movable with the knife and avoids the bending of the end of-the strip by the cutting action of said knife.

After the strips of paper have been severed by the knives and after the formed wads have been forced into the paper tubes it is essential that the ends of the strips of paper above the knives shall be given a short positive feed to insert their ends in the slits of IOO IOS

the Winder-spindles for the formation of the next pair of wads. The means for effecting this feed will next be described. Located Vwithin a hollow vertical space in the casting 136 is a lever 148, pivoted at 149 and operatively connected, as by intermeshing teeth 150, (see dotted lines in Fig. 9,) with another and shorter lever 151, which has a lower bearing-surface 152 and a cam ortoe 153, which are acted upon by a roller 154, mounted in bearing-blocks 155, which rise from the crosshead 130. The reciprocations of the slide 120 and its cross-head cause the roller 154 to engage the toe or cam 153 of the lower lever and oscillate the said lever in a direction to cause the long arm of the lever 148 to be depressed. The reverse movement of these parts is caused by the return movement of the roller along the bearing-surface 152 of the lever 151. A main vertical slide 156 is fitted to ways 157 in the front face of the casting 136 and is itself provided with vertical ways 158 forasmallersupplemental slide 159. The end of the lever'148 extends through suitable openings (not shown) in the front wall of the casting and in the main slide and is fitted between bearing-blocks 160, set in an opening in the supplemental slide. (See Figs. 10 and 24.) Therefore the oscillations of the lever 148 are communicated directly to the supplemental slide. The said slide 159 extends downward and is reduced in 'width to form two cam surfaces 161, adapted to act laterally on two clamps 162, pivoted at 163 to the main vertical slide 156 and held toward each other and in contact with the downward extension of the supplemental slide by means of a spring 164. Opposite the outer edge of each clamp 162 is a block 165, secured to the main slide, and these blocks are so positioned as not to permit the clamps to separate far enough from each other to allow the cams 161 to pass down between them. The strips of paper extend down between the outer edges of the clamps and the blocks 165 on the main slide, and hence the first downward movement of the end of the lever 148 and of the supplemental slide causes the cams 161 to spread the clamps and grip the paper against the blocks 165, and the further downward movement of said supplemental slide carries the main slide 156 with it, for the reason that the cams 161 cannot slide down between the lowerparts of the pivoted clamps. On the return or upward movement of the supplemental slide the cams 161 iirst rise above the clamps and permit the spring 164 to cause the clamps to release the paper, and the continued rise of the supplemental slide brings. its upper end in contact with a stop carried by the main slide, said stop in this instance being shown as composed of a screw 166, adjustable in a bracket 167, overhanging from the top of the main slide, and such continued rise therefore elevates the main slide and its clamps ready for the next feed. The necessary friction to prevent the downward movement of the main slide prior to the stroke of the cams 161 on the clamps, as above described, may be obtained by pins 168, (see Figs. 10 and 24,) passing through the side of the casting 136 to cause friction of one of the way strips Vor gibs 169 against the slide, said pins being pressed inward by the ends of a spring 170, the tension of which may be adjusted by a screw 171, passing through its center into the casting.

It will now be understood that the movements of the acting faces of the clamps constitute a four-motion feed acting, in conjunctionwith the two-motion feed of the blocks 165, to positively grip and feed the strips of paper to insert their ends in the slits of the wad-winders, which will be hereinafter described; but to prevent any liability of the paper being lifted as the feed-slides rise I- provide stationary friction-clamps just above the gripping-clamps, and this constitutes an important feature of my invention. As shown in Figs. 10 and 24, a bracket 172 is secured to the face of the casting 136, on each side of-the main vertical slide 156. The bracket is formed with a vertical guide-slit 173 (indicated by dotted lines) for the strip of paper, which guide-slit is in line with the space between one of the clamp-jaws and its coacting block. In the side of the flange of the bracket which depends below the guideslit 17 3 is a horizontal groove, which receives and retains a renewable wear plate or bar 174, which may be of hardened steel or glass. A lever 175 is pivoted to the bracket 172 at 176' and has its upper end connected by a spring 177 with a suitable fixed part, as apin 178, in the bracket. The lower end of the lever 175 has a passage through it for a plate or presser 179, which is adjustably secured therein by a clamp-screw 180, the edge of said plate being pressed toward the bar 174 by the spring 177, and thus caused to exert a. frictional hold on the paper to prevent its being drawn upward out of the guide 144 by the upward lmovement of the feed-jaws after it has been out, as heretofore described.

The means forsupplying, cutting, and feeding the paper having been fully pointed out, I will proceed to describe in detail the means for taking the end of paper, coiling it into a wad, and inserting it in the flared end of a tube, all of the movements necessary to these operations (except the rotary movements of the coiling-spindles) being obtained from the slide 120. Secured to the front wall of the casting 136, between the two cutter-slides 137, is a block 181, (see Figs. 10, 12, and 13,) having two horizontal openings which communicate with the top surface of said block, each of said openings being adapted to hold a cylindrical shell or bushing 182, having a plurality of slits 183. The top ofthe blockis formed with two lugs 184, rising each side of each of said openings, the two lugs of each pair being united by a clamp-bolt 185, by means of which the cylindrical bushing may be clamped IOO IIO 

